I'm
happy to report that, although the recession may have hit bottom and the
economy is still shaky, you couldn't tell that by the number of people and
transactions going on at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con. For the third (or fourth,
I can't remember) year in a row, the Con sold out. That means that more than
125,000 individual badges were sold for the 4.5-day event. Wow!
Want
to know what 125,000 people looks like? Check out this picture. I'm
somewhere...way in the back...
Actually, I was probably in line at the Hasbro booth waiting to purchase one of their exclusive Con toys. Yes, I'm that big a geek! (In my defense, I purchased the item for my niece.)
And,
once again, I was amazed at the sheer amount of knowledge (and passion) shared
among those attending the Con. Although not strictly a KM conference as we KM
practitioners tend to think of them, I can't really think of it as anything but
a knowledge-sharing event. For example, I learned about the evolution of
animation at Disney, how Green Lantern went from being green to yellow (and red,
orange, and blue), the impact of Star Wars and Star Trek on our culture (and I
was almost kidnapped by Klingons!), and whether Batman is really dead or
whether we fans are being tormented by yet another plot twist (can you guess?)--and
that's just on the first day! People were talking, blogging, IM-ing, and
tweeting - sometimes all at the same time. The sheer amount of information and
knowledge flowing around, through, and outside that building was astonishing.
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